Tag: Asia

One year ago, and just days before Donald Trump’s victory, political risk was the most impending threat to market’s stability. Today such assessment has been largely reviewed thanks to the victory of centrist Emmanuel Macron […]

Although the US Treasury has put China on its monitoring list along with Germany, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland, it announced that no major trading partner of the United States, including China, manipulated their currencies. […]

Latin America’s recovery is on track and growth pickup provides opportunity for reforms in Asia, wrote analysts with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Their conclusions corroborated the IMF’s October 2017 World Economic Outlook that pointed […]

Most often, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) makes more pessimistic predictions than other similar institutions as for the state of the global economy. This time however, with July 2017’s world economic outlook update, the IMF […]

In line with new data showing some slowdown in Chinese 70 big cities’ real estate prices growth, the Chinese stock markets indices lost some ground. While looking at the chart of the Shanghai Composite (SSE), […]

In part because of government administrative measures deemed unfavorable to the real estate market by many analysts, China’s property market slowed in June 2017 with prices in top-tier cities like Beijing falling for the first […]

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Asian economies have learned a lot in 20 years since the Asian Financial Crisis that started in July 1997 amid “sharp loss of […]

The test-launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) by North Korea (DPRK) on July 4, 2017 has been a clear message for the United States not only that the DPRK’s military program has passed a […]

The US administration of President Donald Trump has made decisions that could revive the tensions in Asia a little more. First, it authorized its first sale of weapons to Taiwan despite strong protests from Beijing. […]

Almost immediately after the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement by President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron had replied in English that climate is everyone’s business by turning the slogan […]